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Politics

AAP#7: That was Africa’s 2015

By Peter Dörrie
December 22, 2015
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 What were the big stories from 2015? Credit: Paul Saad.

What were the big stories from 2015? Credit: Paul Saad.

We are joined by Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society, and Yinka Adegoke, the editor of Quartz Africa, to discuss the big trends of Africa’s 2015.

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Notes

  • Recommendations
    • Defining the Narrative – group exhibition at the Gallery Momo in Cape Town
    • Boris Lojkine’s “Hope” at the IMDB
    • Moussa Touré’s “La Prigoue” at the IMDB and Amazon
    • “Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour” by Martin Meredith
    • “Im Schatten des Baobab: Tic Toc Tausendbein und andere Geschichten aus Burkina Faso” by Anne Wenkel
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    • “Winner Take All: China’s Race For Resources and What It Means For Us” by Dambisa Moyo
    • The strange case of 77 blue-collar Chinese migrants that Kenya is calling “cyber-hackers”

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